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Thermal Evolution of Dirac Magnons in the Honeycomb Ferromagnet CrBr$_3$

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2022-11-01 v1

Abstract

CrBr3_3 is an excellent realization of the two-dimensional honeycomb ferromagnet, which offers a bosonic equivalent of graphene with Dirac magnons and topological character. We perform inelastic neutron scattering (INS) measurements using state-of-the-art instrumentation to update 50-year-old data, thereby enabling a definitive comparison both with recent experimental claims of a significant gap at the Dirac point and with theoretical predictions for thermal magnon renormalization. We demonstrate that CrBr3_3 has next-neighbor J2J_2 and J3J_3 interactions approximately 5\% of J1J_1, an ideal Dirac magnon dispersion at the K point, and the associated signature of isospin winding. The magnon lifetime and the thermal band renormalization show the universal T2T^2 evolution expected from an interacting spin-wave treatment, but the measured dispersion lacks the predicted van Hove features, highlighting the need for a deeper theoretical analysis.

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@article{arxiv.2204.11355,
  title  = {Thermal Evolution of Dirac Magnons in the Honeycomb Ferromagnet CrBr$_3$},
  author = {S. E. Nikitin and B. Fåk and K. W. Krämer and T. Fennell and B. Normand and A. M. Läuchli and Ch. Rüegg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.11355},
  year   = {2022}
}